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As time went on, Durham became the home of clothing mills, the tobacco industry (which earned it the nickname "Bull City," after Bull Durham Tobacco), numerous educational institutions and, maybe most notably, medical research. The Raleigh-Durham area is now home to more than 300 medical and health-related companies and medical practices, including Research Triangle Park, a beautiful 7,000-acre designated research and production district with more than 140 major research companies and some 44,000 employees. Included in the revitalization plans is a "museum without walls," incorporating an eclectic amalgamation of storyboards, structures, bronze and stone markers, art and photographs that will describe Durham's African-American history and heritage. To date, a state highway historical ma...
Biofuels Startup Company to Locate in North Carolina DURHAM, N.C., April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- HCL CleanTech, a US-Israeli biofuels technology development company, has selected Southern Research Institute in North Carolina as the hosting site and operator of its first pilot plant to produce low cost fermentable sugars, high-quality lignin and tall oils from North Carolina pine trees. The pilot plant is now under construction at Southern Research and will begin operations this summer.
[JIM WISE]'s evocations of the scent of cured tobacco, of unpretentious bars and citizens, of a hardy old sugar maple on Morris Street, are deeply felt and remembered without lapsing into sentimentality. Wise is also skeptical of the aspirations of those who would ireprove the city, whether it's the "urban renewal" of the 1960s or today's earnestly gentrifying professionals. His dyspepsia runs deep, but at times it goes beyond the tonic to the chronic, as when he grouses in passing that his apparently preferred term of "subdivisions" has been supplanted by the dreadful neologisms of "'neighborhoods' or worse, 'communities.' The book's final section contains a 66-page biographical index of notables in the history of Durham arts. Curiously, there's no explanation for the section's purpos...
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